From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 12 13:26:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EF0516A4CE for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:26:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.webbox.com (mail.webbox.com [207.231.76.69]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E697B43D2F for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:26:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bbowman@vistacraft.com) Received: from mauve [207.231.76.117] by mail.webbox.com (SMTPD32-6.00) id AF7C2A64066E; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:26:20 -0800 To: bob88@eng.ufl.edu, FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org From: "Brent Bowman" Message-Id: <12020443.48379@webbox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:26:23 -0800 Subject: RE: Re: Install on 486 with floppy reboots after mfsroot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 21:26:24 -0000 Oh boy, I guess that I've either got to find more RAM, find an older/stripped down version of FreeBSD, or give up. I looked around a little, how would I find a skinnier version of FreeBSD for this old box. Also, does anybody have any ideas (besides ebay) on how I would find some really old 60ns SIMMS for that box for cheap? Thanks so far, you've been quite responsive. Brent >--- Original Message --- >From: Bob Johnson >To: bbowman@vistacraft.com >Date: 2/12/04 11:43:38 AM > Warren Block wrote: >>On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Brent Bowman wrote: >> >>>> I get to the end of step "2.3.1.1 Booting for the i386™" where it >>>> tells to boot the kernel and no matter what I do, it just reboots the >>>> computer! Therefore it looses whatever it tried to put in memory and >>>> starts over again. How can I get it to go to the kernel setup? >>>> >>>> My Hardware: >>>> IBM PS/Valuepoint 486 33MHz >>>> 8 MB RAM >> >> ^^^^^^^^^^ >> >> This is likely the problem. The install needs more than 8M, somewhere >> between 12 and 16M last I heard. >> >> If it helps, I have a Valuepoint 486 DX2/66 with 32M of RAM that runs >> 4.8 flawlessly. >> > >I've got 4.9 running on a 486/33 with 20 MB of RAM, so if you can scrape >up that much it should be sufficient. It works fine as a personal mail >server with Courier, except that the IMAP folders containing over 10,000 >messages cause huge amounts of thrashing when I open them. Takes >several minutes. > >It also takes nearly three days to build 4.9 from source on a 486/33... > >- Bob > > > >